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gideondsouza has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So, I installed Module::Starter from cpan (I did a sudo cpan, then force install Module::Starter)

BUT, if I try to run it from bash I get :

>> -bash: module-starter: command not found

    I've tried:
  1. Close/Reopen bash
  2. Install from cpan again, cpan says it is already installed. Also tried force install.
Any ideas? Thanks so much

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Re: module-starter command not found after installation
by CountZero (Bishop) on Dec 02, 2012 at 07:35 UTC
    Why did you have to force install this module? Did you get any erors during install?

    CountZero

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      Nope. I got all tests successful I did get: 'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state
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        That means that you need to install a YAML module or a JSON module. CPAN will let you choose which module that you want. I've had problems with YAML, so I always choose YAML::Syck. So, sudo to cpan, then 
        cpan> install YAML::Syck
cpan> o conf init yaml_module
#choose YAML::Syck
cpan> o conf commit

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Re: module-starter command not found after installation
by aitap (Curate) on Dec 02, 2012 at 10:50 UTC

    Exactly where did CPAN install this module? Try perldoc perllocal to find this out.

    Perhaps CPAN has automatically set up a local::lib overlay in the home directory of the user who ran CPAN (i.e. root) and thus made installed modules unavalable for other users.

    Sorry if my advice was wrong.
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      Hey Maybe you're on to something

      I got this:

      Wed Nov 28 20:17:48 2012: "Module" Test::Simple
       ·   "installed into: /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4"
       ·   "LINKTYPE: dynamic"
       ·   "VERSION: 0.98"
       ·   "EXE_FILES: "
   Wed Nov 28 20:18:06 2012: "Module" HTTP::Tiny
       ·   "installed into: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4"
       ·   "LINKTYPE: dynamic"
       ·   "VERSION: 0.024"
       ·   "EXE_FILES: "
   Wed Nov 28 20:18:12 2012: "Module" IPC::Run3
       ·   "installed into: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4"

      Also, I can see a number of modules under /Library/Perl/5.10 and /Library/Perl/5.12, but I can't see Module::Starter here

      And It seems that all my newer module installations are going somewhere wrong! How do I make them go back to the regular default location?

      I checked somewhere, can I safely do this:

      eval $(perl -Mlocal::lib=--deactivate-all)
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        This command will just unset some environment variables and restore PATH in your current shell. You need to edit your shell rc file (usually ~/.bashrc, check root's too) to reset changes local::lib made. You may also need to edit CPAN config, try grep -r perl5 ~/.cpan (maybe as root) to check whether you need to do it.

        You can also install modules as normal user (to ~/perl5) if you allow local::lib to create the overlay.

        Sorry if my advice was wrong.
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